LogFAQs > #973255212

so, there are some weird ideas in this topic, some of them verging on Jordan Peterson's pseudoscientific drivel. but I want to address this in particular:

BettyWhite posted...

despite the general weaponizing of the term "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times", there is certainly truth within that statement.

this is... not really true. I read a pretty thorough debunking of this idea as a multiple part series called "The Fremen Mirage"

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/

it's long, but it's well worth reading